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I don't think he was saying there's anything wrong with that. He was just trying to make a point that capturing a fleeting moment during a cutscene is no less a valid shot than one by someone who spends ages staging shots in Skyrim. Whilst I realise you take yours whilst playing and capture moments from your gameplay, there are plenty who load up all the graphical mods and lighting tweaks etc purely just to take shots. Changing the lighting and DoF on a shot by shot basis. Not actually playing the game like that.

Can't say i've ever gone that far. I did get a friend of mine let me stab him, shoot him and blow him up with C4 in battefield 3 once but that's the closest i've got to 'staging' a screen. ;-)

Your point would be valid if people weren't staging screen shots. What's the problem with a screen shot of a very nice looking scene rendered in the in game engine, whether the player has control or not? A lot of the skyrim shots are so staged, using the free cam to position and get the right poses, removing the Hud, graphical tweaks which mean they can't obtain a playable frame rate but looks good in stills.

All I did was press f12 at a moment that I thought the designers had put a lot of effort in to and that it should be shared with people who might like to look at it.

So phooey.

It honestly wasn't meant as any kind of insult to you, merely a comment I wanted to make about screenshots in general. It's obviously a vaguer distinction in games than in real photography, because everything in a game was created by someone, and players often have the freedom to pause the game and pick their camera angles. But there is still a difference between pressing F12 at the time the developers chose to show you a scene, and searching out those photo-worthy scenes yourself.